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Inside Investing Moneylife Digital Exclusives Ravi Samalad Mutual funds’ asset base up 3% in August HDFC Mutual Fund, Franklin Templeton and Birla Sun Life Mutual Fund’s AAUM soar by Rs5,550 crore, Rs4,684 crore and Rs2,685 crore respectively while LIC Mutual Fund and Deutsche Mutual Fund emerge as major losers Mid-cap Scanner: Adhunik Metaliks Not heavily traded and lesser tracked, this stock has some untapped potential Herd on the street: Kingfisher Airlines, GMR Infrastructure and Mcleod Russel What’s buzzing in these stocks right now Hang Seng BeES yet to attract investors The scheme was the first ETF with global exposure; however, the market response has been tepid so far Herd on the street: Wockhardt; Suzlon; Mudra Lifestyle; Shree Ram Mills; Venky's India; UB Holdings; Tide Water What’s buzzing in these stocks right now Index funds getting popular; Birla Sun Life plans to launch Nifty ETF The fund will closely track the stocks represented in the S&P CNX Nifty; but ETF volumes have remained on the lower side Cranes Software could be delisted; governance issues surface The company’s shares are set to be delisted from the NSE due to non-compliance of listing agreements Handle small-cap funds with care at current levels The market seems poised for a correction; small-cap stocks may not be a good bet Because your interests are different from that of the fund companies On debut, trading volume of Prakash Steelage is 10 times its capital The stock closed 68% up. Is there more to the stock’s phenomenal debut? Inside Investing Recent ML Digital Exclusives Pratibha Kamath and Sanket Dhanorkar Wealth Creators 1999-2009 The after-effects of the massive boom in engineering, real estate and raw materials of 2003-07 and, of course, massive speculation, continue to be reflected in the wealth-creators’ list. Pratibha Kamath and Sanket Dhanorkar pick the toppers Debashis Basu SEBI slams AMFI for ignoring directive on trail commission The market regulator has again put its foot down on mutual funds’ trail commission issue. Will AMFI comply this time? Swapnil Suvarna & Ravi Samalad Tata Motors DVR shares trade at 40% discount, analysts foxed Tata Motors DVR shares are trading at a discount of 40%. If this is a case of market imperfection, it is a huge arbitrage opportunity waiting to be exploited Swapnil Suvarna and Pratibha Kamath Market looks constrained by high valuations Athough the Sensex is a good way off from its all-time high of 21,000-plus, the index’s current P/E valuation is close to its high of January 2008, which means further gains may be fuelled solely by the liquidity factor Debashis Basu AMFI asks for a new vote on trail commission issue by email After our story yesterday pointing out how its old vote by hand remains unimplemented for five months, the fund lobby has asked for a new vote Pratibha Kamath and Subrato Das Rising promoter stake lead to better results, higher stocks Where promoters have increased their stake, the growth has been excellent leading to higher share price Amritha Pillay How SEBI failed to regulate the Osian Art Fund SEBI failed to regulate the Osian Art Fund under its regulations covering Collective Investment Schemes, despite its own advisory against unregulated art funds in 2008 Sucheta Dalal SEBI board cannot quash order against NSDL: ex-CJI Justice JS Verma says such quasi-judicial orders can only be reviewed and quashed “by a judicial forum with requisite jurisdiction, at the instance of a petitioner with standing to seek relief.” Osian Art Fund investors get part payment The long wait for some Osian Art Fund investors seems to have finally ended. However, investors have received only part payment of the redemption amount, while they continue to be anxious about the net asset value ABN AMRO customers upset over their Osian Fund investment The Bank, which collected Rs30 crore from investors, is believed to have charged an entry load of Rs25,000 for every Rs10 lakh invested Mutual fund-broker route may drive up investor costs Cost to investor under the new proposed route could reach up to eight times the expenses under current model Sanket Dhanorkar Shady IPO deals continue unabated The promoter-merchant banker racket ensures IPOs get subscribed fully; huge discount demanded to aid subscription impacts post-listing performance Promoters tank up on preferential allotments in Sistema Shyam Recently, the Department of Telecom (DoT) gave its nod to the Russian government bid to pick up a 20% stake in the service provider for an estimated Rs3,200 crore. Promoters of Sistema Shyam Teleservices, a mobile service provider, are looking to Online MF trading bane for distributors Allowing trading in mutual funds through exchanges will benefit brokers as they can charge commissions from both buyers and sellers; but it may put small distributors out of business The Indian pharmaceutical saga: Strong on generics, weak in R&D Despite an investment of $3 billion in R&D, the Indian pharmaceutical industry has been unable to come out with a single new drug GIPL expects to double turnover in FY11 Moneylife speaks to Parvez Umrigar, managing director of Gammon Infrastructure Projects which has a committed investment of Rs100 billion over the next few years Many stocks still down 70-80% below their peak despite huge market rally The Sensex is yet to climb the peak of 21,000 and yet several stocks are trading significantly higher than previous highs. Some, on the other hand, are still down miserably A few companies refuse to divulge employee remuneration details The Companies Act, 1956, requires companies to disclose remuneration details of employees earning more than a stipulated amount. Some companies are instead taking the easy way out, falling back on technicalities in the said Act to withhold such Southern cement units may suffer due to over-capacity and low demand With major capacity additions and low expected demand for 2010 and 2011, key cement players in southern India are expected to be affected adversely Osian Art Fund delays payout After disappointingly low returns, unit holders have suffered a delay in getting their money back from the fancied Osian Art Fund. The fund will now pay investors in November Osian Art Fund disappoints investors with just 5% returns The art fund promised great returns in 2006 when the art market was hot, but has disappointed investors on exit From Rajlakshmi to Kanya Suraksha: UTI learns its lessons UTI Mutual Fund has a new scheme for the girl child - the Kanya Suraksha yojana scheme. But it has learnt from the Rajlakshmi scheme disaster and joined hands with the Bihar government this time Chain marketing for Insurance MLM companies have been selling insurance products although the activity is a clear violation of the IRDA Act PMS in troubled waters Fund houses shut PMS business after incurring heavy losses due to the market crash last year Inside Investing Face to Face
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 IDBI Bank deals itself a triple whammy After changing its employee incentive plan to meet targets; de-emphasising sales of non-banking products, it has now also done away with a number of fee-based charges for banking  Investors furious over SEBI’s hike in arbitration With less then 24 hours to the implementation of a SEBI-mandated hike in arbitration fees, investors appeal to the finance ministry for help; they point out that 84% of  Mid-cap Scanner: Adhunik Metaliks Not heavily traded and lesser tracked, this stock has some untapped potential  Smaller engineering companies may benefit from higher capex An Edelweiss Securities survey points out that infrastructure companies have firmed up higher capex plans over the next two years. This will benefit smaller engineering companies  NSE ‘refutes’ its own data which indicates that Ravi Narain, MD of the National Stock Exchange, believes that the bourse under his control is not hollow, shallow or illiquid. But his ‘explanation’ only raises more
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